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Catholic action on environment set for massive multiplication this Laudato Si' Week
… unfolded "even beyond our expectations." He highlighted numerous projects, among them a major tree-planting initiative in Bangladesh , the creation of Laudato Si' Gardens, countless webinars …
Shut in, locked down, no green space? Six tips to connect with nature
… lives in the Franciscan-inspired Assisi Community in Washington, D.C., has a favorite dogwood tree in her neighborhood, which she visits throughout the year, "always looking forward to its … although it could also be indoors, with house plants, or even at a window with a view of a tree. "Have one place where you just spend some time, in a sense doing nothing except being …
EarthBeat Weekly: Most of the world's people are caught in an 'ecological poverty trap'
… is trying to change that, reports Sumon Corraya. Church groups set a goal of planting 700,000 trees during the fifth anniversary year of Pope Francis' environmental encyclical. Weighing in on …
In Bangladesh, Catholics plant Laudato Si' trees to buffer against storms
… since 1970. Now the Catholic Church is trying to change that, with a goal of planting 700,000 trees to celebrate the fifth anniversary of Pope Francis' 2015 encyclical " Laudato Si' , on Care … people, which has only about 400,000 Catholics. Each Catholic is asked to plant at least one tree, Bishop Gervas Rozario of Rajshahi, who is vice president of the Catholic Bishops' …
A plant-based diet is about much more than not harming animals
… tradition, states, "Ether, air, fire, water, earth, planets, all creatures, directions, trees and plants, rivers and seas, they are all organs of God's body. Remembering this a devotee …
In Lee Isaac Chung's 'Minari,' faith is difficult but persistent
… the many structural barriers that prevent mustard seeds from growing into large, flowering trees the way Jesus' parable suggests. "Minari" tells a different story of a faith that is …
Webinar explores worldview 'collision' when missionaries go to the Amazon
… all made clearer in the rainforest. "If you don't know how important it is to really respect a tree or a river or just a small being in your backyard, you can't respect bigger things," he said. …
A former cop reckons with unending police killings of Black Americans
… in which a branch falls and kills someone as a consequence of a woodcutter's chopping a tree in a forest. If the forest is not regularly traveled by persons, no moral blame is …
Now playing: Pope Francis' ecological encyclical set to music
… have helped with remote recordings of three of the songs — "Creator Speaks in Languages of Trees," "Prayer for Our Common Home" and "The Joy of Our Hope." Chase is looking for a publisher …
From frontier to the present: New history traces US church and its people
… of the revolutionary ideology in the late 18th century, providing a new branch from the tree of anti-Catholic prejudice in the young republic. Perhaps when you study anti-Catholicism, …
Conservative legal experts take up Apache Oak Flat religious freedom case
… in 2008 bulldozed sacred sites, including a sacred altar, burial ground and old-growth trees, as part of a highway expansion near Mount Hood in Oregon. The Slockish case has been on …